I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.

I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar [in Dublin] and St. Paul's [in London], than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelation.

He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.

Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark!

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

"If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow!

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.